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An urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green New Deal—and a detailed playbook for how we can win it—including contributions by leading activists and progressive writers like Varshini Prakash, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Bill McKibben, Rev William Barber II, and more.

In October 2018, scientists warned…

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I was one in a world of frustrated and increasingly anxious people back in 2018. Politicians just weren’t talking about the severity of the environmental crisis and the vast actions that we need (and can) undertake to tackle it. And then Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg and Fridays for the Future, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal, and the Sunrise Movement came along. Suddenly everyone was talking about it. This set of essays brings so many of those thinkers and doers together to give us an inspiring road map for getting out of the crisis and realizing a better world…

If you care about the climate crisis and are interested in serious solutions, this book from the founders of the youth-led Sunrise Movement is as inspiring as it is practical. The book features essays on the connection between climate and racial justice as well as an analysis of why the Green New Deal is the best way to address both challenges. There's a lot here for young people burning to save the planet but new to activism, and also for older folks to work with our youth to turn today's climate and racial crisis into a chance to dethrone the…

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